Artur Admin`s soundpack for TES news - The Eternal Suffering mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

A developer named Arthur Admin (that's what the new technician will be called in TES on the Northern Hills) recently has completed, without exaggeration, a titanic work in terms of volume and meticulousness.

For six months, he single-handedly not only collected voices from all more or less well-known modifications with the groups voices (both canonical, from the trilogy, and with added professional actors) plus from some other games into one huge sound-pack, but also:

1. - cataloged by groups and got rid of duplicates of many hundreds of files, and unified file names for easier use;
2. - shoveled up not only famous mods - much was extracted from unused original resources;
3. - the most time-consuming: many tracks (especially from the original) contained extraneous sounds, left remarks in the studio ("we are writing!"), inappropriate pauses, ruined levels or tone, and therefore EVERY such problem had to be resolved in an audio editor to a decent result. No automation, everything was manual.
4. - he also had to manually edit the tracks collected by the neural network from known voices for new situations: the author claims that the rework was very difficult, but the result is worth it and in most cases will be indistinguishable from a live actor, because only the best variants were chosen;
5. - by the way, about new situations: many voice options for looting (several types), healing, gratitude, alertness, grenade throwing, etc. have been added;
6. - "revoiced" zombified (what does this mean? Read in the developer's detailed log);
7. - phrases intended for characters from groups, using gas masks or closed helmets, have been changed taking into account the muffled sound; muffled breathing sounds have been also added for them;
8. - many phrases were also changed in terms of language (many Ukrainian phrases);
9. - attention was paid to the problem when one NPC spoke the introductory phrase in one voice, and continued in another, or moved his mouth silently, or touched on topics or anecdotes that did not correspond to his group or situation, and many, many more absurdities;
10. - added everyday sounds in camps - coughing, sneezing, hiccups, farting of different tonality and length;
11. - added a lot of music! Of course, only the best - without reverbs, vocals and fails. The number of tracks was enough to also distribute them by groups. Harmonica has almost a hundred new tracks, and guitar has more than two hundred - it was selected only the best quality from much more! And whistling. If these alone were added, it would already deserve a monument.

Once again, just to make the scale of the performed work more understandable: AT THE MOMENT THIS IS THE BIGGEST ORDERED PACK OF PROFESSIONAL VOICING IN WHOLE "STALKER"-GAME WORLD. If in LADCE was only 15 voices and files were several hundred MB in volume, then the assembled sound-pack contains 75 complete sets and has more than 4 GB - and this is all well cataloged by voice, language, situation, without duplicates and garbage, in good quality, without overloads (tested in headphones of different price categories and speakers) and completeness of situations for each voice. A work of truly hellish scope, and it is complete.

What's next?

Of course, these are only very well ordered (by groups and voices) and very well completed and carefully edited files yet. There is a lot of work ahead of including them into the code. We hope not to screw this up and the mod will sound extremely diverse and authentic.

Attached file presents a detailed work log.

PS: speaking of voices and sounds in other mods. The voices quality range is quite large and there are mods with high-quality content, but ordering, duplication and other technical nuances are as bad, as they were before in LA. That is, not only something is bad, but EVERYTHING IN GENERAL IS AWFUL.

PS 2: this is not the work with sounds that was written about a year ago, but another part, just as large in volume and important in value.